Tornado Leaves Thousands Without Power In Long Island (NY)

jpak

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Wed Jul-18-07 03:26 PM
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Tornado Leaves Thousands Without Power In Long Island (NY)

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_199150015.html

(CBS) ISLIP, N.Y. The National Weather Service confirmed that an F-1 tornado touched down on the Islip area of Long Island Wednesday morning.

At the F1 level, a tornado carries hurricane-force winds that can reach 112 mph. It can peel off roofs, push mobile homes off their foundations or blow vehicles off the road.

LIPA reports major power outages on Long Island. At its peak, some 51,000 customers were without power. Currently, 12,900 still have no electricity.

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babylonsister

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Wed Jul-18-07 03:31 PM
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1. I grew up there; tornadoes were unheard of way back then. nt

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NanceGreggs

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Wed Jul-18-07 04:16 PM
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3. HEY!!!

How could I have gone this long WITHOUT KNOWING you grew up on the Island?

I grew up in Bayshore, which is in Islip Township.

Where did you live, and in what years?

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babylonsister

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Wed Jul-18-07 04:21 PM
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4. Babylon? Oak Beach? I think we discussed this, but I could be wrong.

:hi: :toast: We were neighbors!

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NanceGreggs

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Wed Jul-18-07 04:28 PM
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6. No, I don't think we ever have discussed this ...

I lived in Bayshore from the early 'fifties until 1968, when I left home. Graduated Brentwood HS in '66. How about you?

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babylonsister

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Wed Jul-18-07 04:39 PM
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7. Lived at Oak Beach from 1965 til I graduated in 73 (lived in Huntington

prior to that); then I moved on; spent time in France, Babylon, Denver, Boston, before I got married and then didn't settle down.:crazy: Married a Coastie so we moved a bit, finally winding up here because of his job. I keep asking him, where to next?;)

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NanceGreggs

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Wed Jul-18-07 05:03 PM
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8. I am just amazed by this!

And my story is similar. Lived in Lake Ronkonkoma with a boyfriend when I left home. Then married and lived in San Remo (north shore, near Smithtown).

We then moved to Connecticut, then Nashville, then back to NY - my first husband was in the music biz, and was offered a job with CBS Records here in TO. That's how I wound up here.

Small world, my BabylonSister!

:hug:

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babylonsister

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Wed Jul-18-07 05:07 PM
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9. I thought we'd been here before because of some of the pics

I've posted that you 'recognized'. It is indeed a small world-So near yet so far! :pals:

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TechBear_Seattle

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Wed Jul-18-07 04:14 PM
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2. A tornado on Long Island? New York?

Good thing global warming is a myth. :sarcasm:

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HockeyMom

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Wed Jul-18-07 04:25 PM
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5. Tornado touched down in Selden

several years ago near the Community College Campus. Yes, it can happen there.

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NNadir

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Wed Jul-18-07 10:20 PM
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10. I wonder if the newly proposed Shoreham dangerous natural gas terminal will be at risk.

Frankly I'd put better odds on the proposed dangerous fossil fuel terminal at Shoreham being destroyed by a hurricane.

Long Island is going to eat it big time from hurricanes, I think, especially with the accumulation of dangerous fossil fuel wastes in the atmosphere.

And then there's always that old stand by: Terrorism.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-bzgas224901372sep22,0,1510913.story?coll=ny-linews-headlines

They are masters of NIMBY over there in Shoreham. You have to hand it to them.

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